Advantages of performing in a foreign country, No.1:
It doesn’t matter if you sing a nonsense lyric by mistake.
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February 7th, 2008 at 1.20am
What nonsense lyric would that be?
February 7th, 2008 at 1.22am
oh, several. normally it’s a nonsense word.. like when your brain can’t quite decide in the final second which lyric should come out of your mouth, and so mixes the two. thus creating a whole new, nonsensical word.
February 7th, 2008 at 1.30am
Who’d be a jazz singer. Nowhere to hide in such a situation. In the rhythm section on piano if you can’t remember a chord you just leave a bit of ‘creative’ space.
February 7th, 2008 at 2.07am
I guess that’s where skat came from isn’t it? The jazz equivalent of tourette’s syndrome?
February 7th, 2008 at 2.37am
ahh, Peter.
February 7th, 2008 at 5.53pm
what did I say?!
February 7th, 2008 at 6.11pm
*shakes head and sighs*
February 7th, 2008 at 6.21pm
Hey, if I were you I’d make it all up, or at least sing one nonsensical phrase a night.
I challenge you to do a song with the words:
Uncious
Crepuscular
Trombone
Thud
Flange
February 7th, 2008 at 6.40pm
aren’t those real words?
February 7th, 2008 at 6.42pm
Easy, Jack. going by tonight’s set list, that could be -
Sunny - “Uncious, yesterday my life was filled with rain…”
Fly Me To The Moon - “In other words, please be true/Crepuscular, I love you.”
Moon River - “We’re after the same/Trombone’s end…”
This Girl’s In Love With You - “You see, it’s true/This girl’s in thud with you…”
Route 66 - “Kingsman, Barstow, Flange Bernadino.”
February 7th, 2008 at 6.42pm
oh bugger - does it have to be all in one song?
I’m screwed.
and indeed, Vic, they are all real words. Jack wants me to make up a whole nonsensical phrase. which is a whole other ball o’ wax…
February 7th, 2008 at 6.52pm
Of course the lyric in Moon River ‘Huckleberry Friend’ sounds a bit nonsense anyway.